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Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-04
BOYCOTT NOTES.

The Connecticut Courts have practiC-
ally decided that when labor organiza-
ton impose boycott, they must not
tell the merchants of it, fer that would
be criminal. So the working,nen quietly
boycott ut the slightest wink from the
right quarter.
The boycott ON the Third Avenue
New York; Railroad is not going to lag
if the labor organizations know them
selves. Committees are now organized
both by the Knights and trades unions
to look out for the patrons of that road
and note their addresses and business.
7. +. torbin IL Son, of New Britain,
Conn, cut wages recently and their men
went on strike. Since then they cannot
get men to till their places, and the car
penters and furniture workers of New
\ ork and other large cities will not
handle their goods. The Corbins manu-
facture all kinds of builders hardware,
wood screws, handsaw screws and cabi.
netmakers' till locks in iron and brass.
The Executive Board of the Knights
of Labor of the District of Columbia has
declared boycott against the Potomac
Steamship company, whose steamers,
the George Leary and the Excelsior, ply
between New York and the national cap
ital. The cause was the employment by
the company of Captain Davis, the com
mander of the Excelsior, who is not a
member of the Local Assembly of Pilots
and Mates of the District of Columbia,
and whom the company refused to re-
move.
After losing million dollars in theil
fight against the Knights, the thirty tive
firms composing the Philadelphia Cloth
ing Exchange have been compelled to sur
render. Three months ago they locket
out their caters, and declared that the,
would no longer employ Knights of La
Dor. In reply the Knights instituted
wholesale boycott against the Exchange
scattered circulars throughout the length
and breadth of the land, and sent gu
special agents all over the country I,
look after the rigid enforcement of til,
measure.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-04
THE CARPENTERS STRIKE.

"rhey defeated themselves" was the
comment of builder, referring to the
ending of the carpenters strike last
Wednesday night.
Workmen usually defeat themselves
when they are defeated. Not by their
own activity, however. Their misfor-
tune is that they don't employ the rene
dies at hand.
And SO the carpenters as well as the
plumbers of New Haven have been
beaten, and the bosses they have
also suffered little, if that is any con-
ISOLATION to the man who has run in debt,
starved himself, and figured on the prob
able chances for nomination in the
democratic" primary next fall.
Still, with certain amount of disci-
pline and courage, this strike of the car
penters might have been won--that is to
say, the carpenters would have compelled
a number of the bosses to sign their bill
of labor We are informed that some
of the bosses contemplated deserving the
builders combination, and going to
work.
A''N wa ~ N.ii'aSb anu i'tllNti nave
had carpenters strikes, and the work
men have won. But in those cities the
carpenters are not satisfied with the win
ming of a strlke-they want the earth, =
and ST. they vote rs they strike.
Let the carpenters and joiners of New
Haven not be discouraged, however.
They have at least made trial, and
even if they failed they have not
failed entirely. The union
voted to rescind the resolution to require
the bosses to sign an agreement, The
union men will 20 to work on the nine
| hour schedule.
When the workmen know enough to
capture the State, and nationalize the
land and the means of labor, there will
he no more strikes, and no builders tex,
exchange save that of their own creation
Let them study the principles of Social.
ism. for to understand is to adopt.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-04
MINERS AND THE X. OF l..

SANCTUARY OF LOCAL ASSEMBLY, 1891.
SToNEBoRo, PA, May 30, 1887
To me Worhmcn's AdrOcdfe:
have been instructed by Ben. Butler
Assembly 5G91, X. of L., to send you the
following resolutions for publication in
your columns:
WHEREAS, National District Assembly
1876, and the National Federation of
Miners and Mine Laborers are both os-
tensibly in existence especially to secure
advantages to miners and mine laborers,
and ....... ...
WHEREAS, The best results can only
be achieved through harmonious CO.
operation of the two organizations, and
WHEREAS, Owing, apparently, to a
difference in constitutional provisions
for the settlement of grievances, such
harmonious cooperation does not pre-
vail, and
WHEREAS. Like difficulty and frater-
nal strife have become glarngly manifest
Noble Order of the Knights of Labor and
other labor organizations therefore, be ii
ResOlred, That we, the members of
Ben. Butler Assembly, No. 5G9l K of
X, and Of Sub. Div. No. 3, of N. d. A.
1876, in regular session assembled. do
earnestly suggest that N. d. A. 1885, at
its session at Cincinnati adopt such meas
ures as will promote harmony in the
prosecution of the ends for which N. ID.
A. 1876, and the N. F. Of NJ. and nj. L.
were organized, and further be it
Resolved, That we urge the need ri
instructing the N. ID. AS delegation to
the Minneapolis session of the General
Assembly, X. of L., to advocate such a
revision of the constitution of our Order
as will facilitate cooperation with other
labor organza ions.
Resolved. That the apparently repel-
liant attitude which our Order has of late
assumed towards the Trade Unions is
almost sure to cause disintegration of
our organization, and to defer the reali-
zton of the natural object of the labor
movement, viz: the abolition of wage
slavery.
Resolved, That copies of these resolu-
tons be sent to the labor papers for pub
LEGATION and to the Cincinnati session of
N. ID, A. 49,, through our representative,
f. G. Porterlield.
G. w. PHELPS, Rec. Sec.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-04
A LANDLORD POLICEMAN
Assaults u citizen, Breaks His Leg, ant
Arrests Him.

Assaults Citizen, Breaks His Leg, and
Arrests Him.
The papers report an assault upon Git
izen Newcomb Bassett by Policeman
Doherty, last Monday. Mr.. Bassett was
knocked down, his leg broken, and he
was otherwise bruised and wounded.
The policeman is also landlord, and
this may account for the fact that he
was not arrested.
Citizen Bassett was unarmed, and this
may account for the fact that Policeman
Landlord Doherty still roams the citys
streets.
The citizens who witnessed the scene
were probably 80 much impressed with
the blue coat and brass buttons of the
liveried landlord that they hesitated to
fall upon him and humble his proud
spirit.
The boot-blac with toy pistol discov-
cred that he had no cartridges
And 40 Citizen Bassett was dubbed
and manned and dumped into wagon
and taken to the police station.
1t is whispered about that King Alco-
hol was potent factor in the atfray. If
so, the landlord in livery had a bad
tenant.
1t is also said that the policeman enjoys
political influence whether it is dem
ocratc' or republican" is immaterial-
il is capitalistic
Policemen with clubs and revolvers
are necessary to keep the citizens in or
der, But what is to keep policemen
from brltally attacking citizens?
Perhaps, if the workingmen take it in
to their heads to elect respectable citi-
zens to office, instead of "democratic"
and republican" politicians, there won't
be any liyericd landlords ON the police
force.
Until then we shall hearof such things
from time to time. Letus take the hint
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-04
ROME. .
BY ALIEN. NJ. GREEN.

Come to Rome, says the Pope. I'm
roaming" says McGIynn,
I'm roaming this country all round
And preaching the truth, the blessed Cos
pei truth
Wherever oppression is found"
Come to Rome" says the Pope. I'm
coming" says McGlynn,
I'm coming through the hearts of
I'll be there by and by, when my work is
done,
And don't you expect me till then
Come to Rome" says the Pope. "1'll
he there" says McGlynn,
"When the sun of my life has set
When the poor man IL free, when the
cheeks of his wife
With tears of much joy shall be wet. "
"Come to Rome" says the Pope. q
cant, yet, says Mctilynn,
For I'm busy just now, don't you see?
But if you're in hurry, perhaps, my
dear sire,
iuW TEL Rome come Orer iO me.
Hartford Examiner.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-04
To the Workmen's Adrocate:

To the Horkmens Adrocate:
My attention has been directed to a
personal item in your worthy journal in
which you impute have grown con
sentative since attained a salaried posi-.
ton" can't perceive what motive you
can have, or what facts lead you, to
make such an assertion. for it is certainly
an attack upon my character and honor
and insinuates that have had merely a
mercenary motive in the labor move
ment. | do not care to rush into any
defense of my record rs my own con-
science satisfies me have done my duty.
And now freely state that TODAY
have not ahated one jot in my old time
convictions that this movement of the
working people must reach down to the
root of the question. and that there will
not he any satisfactory solution until the
railroads, telegraphs. land and the means
of labor become the property of the
whole people and administered by them
under cooperative system of social
democratic control.
Yours, Z. j. MCGUIRE.
Youngstown, o., May 30.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-04
TO THE UNORGANlZED.

Workinglnen and women who desire
to better their condition and are willing
to join hands with Organized Labor, can
obtain all information in regard to the
various organizations and the manner of
joining them, by addressing letter to
the chairman of thei Organizing Com
mittee of the Trades Council,
L. II. SACKETT, 1915 Bradley st.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-04
THE WOODWORKERS

Mechanics Assembly, 1909, composed
entirely of woodworkers, are making a
move to induce all woodworkers to the
city and vicinity to unite with them,
This is a movement that should he sue
cessful. Woodworkers already members
of the order will advance their own best
interest by being transferred to 1900,
where the occupations of all are of kim
dred nature.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-04
FACTORY FOTOGRAFy.

"If the girls are too id heightened
to have their pictures taken, they're too
high toned to work here" Ii is degrad.
ing enough to the workers of the world
to work under the dominion of private
bosses for wages without preserving the
picture Of wage slavery as memento.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-04
TRADES COUNCIL.

The notice in our last issue in refer
ence to a meeting of the Trades Council
last Sunday evening, was inserted
through mistake of the secretary. The
regular meeting takes place tomorrow
evening, June o, There should he full
attendance, as there is important bust
ness.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-04
NEW BEDFORD.

Col. X. j. Hinton, of New York. will
speak on the Common tomorrow Sun
day. afternoon. Workingmen should
not fail to attend as questions Of great
importance to them will be discussed.
The WoRKMEN's ADVOCATE will be on
hand, also; look out for it,
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-04
Business department.
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

New advertisements or changes
must be handed in by Wednesday
noon to secure insertion in next
number: Office. ISL Chapel street.
I'd floor. Pc. Address, Drawer 1903.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-04
al-EcOnomic Agitation.

Lectures and addresses on Labor and
cognate questions will be delivered ON
application, by Richard j, Hinton. Adj
dress, care of the Leader, lsi William
street, or ~ East It'll street, New York.
Terms reasonable.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-04
COMMUNICATIONS.

NoTICE To CORRESPONDENTS Write plain;
boil down your letters; make them short.
Write only on one side Of the paper BE ~ good
natured as you can under the circumstances
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-04
Howe Il StetsOn

Howe 4 Stetson
Insurance Building, offer immense values
in Dress Goods at cearing-out prices,
viz: handsome Plaids at 12 lee. per
yard, reduced from coo; wide Atwood
Dress Plaids at 29c., formerly SOC. goods.
A large assortment of plain, plaided and
striped Atwood Dress Goods, at Bic per
yard, reduced from 80 to 81 1-2c.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-04

Atwood Blue Flannel Shirts, lace an
button, at Sl.OO; worth Sl.50; at Loeb
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-04
LOCAL NOTICES.

Read the "Rcgistcr's" advertisement,
of Help Wanted in its Special Advertising
Column,
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-04

For all kinds Of Job Printing, 90 to tn
stafford Printing Co.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-04

New style Percale Shirts at 80 cents
Is cents and Sl,00 The finest line ever
exhibited. At Loeb's, SOB Chapel st.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-04

Blue, brown, white, and checked Over
alls, excellent quality, at 80 cents, al
Loeb's.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-04

Mems Cotton Seamless Hose, Zoe. pair
Big bargain. At Loeb's, SO3 Chapel st.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-04
Howe 4 Stetson

Insurance Building, offer the balance of
theirSpring and Summer Jackets. Wraps,
etc, at about half former prices.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-04
Howe Il Stetson

Insurance Building, offer handsome
Jhambray Bingham Robes at ST., Is each.
Also pretty Printed Robes at SSc
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-04

Howe Il stetson
Insurance Building, offer great values in
Tapestry Covers for Table Wear as fol-
lows, 5x4 size at 35c. EACH GN4 at 69c :;
1xi at $50; l5xS at Tl.00.; Ski ut Sl.3S. :;
lOx4 at Sl,75. These desirable covers
are very much under price.
White Dress Shirts, our own make,
size, IL ~ to II ~, SOC, 75c. and 81 90
At LOEB's, S03 Chapel street
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-25
Temptations of a Brokers' Life.

From the start the boy entering a
brokers' office will be intrusted with
large sums of money to carry to the
bank or to customers. He may be in
an office where bank-bills and shining
gold are within his reach all the time;
and he will be so completely absorbed
in the subject of stocks, bonds and
money that it will be somewhat
strange if he does not soon begin to
look al the getting of money as the
most important business of life. And
when he is little older, and becomes
clerk or cashier, he will be exposed to
the temptation to increase his income
by stock-gambling-" specializing" as
il is called-on his own account. Such
ventures are of course very hazardous,
and on all accounts should be summed.
A broker requires great strength of
character to resist the temptation to get
wealthy by false methods; and a boy
should think long and well before he
adopts the calling, for the brokers' bust
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Chinese Medicine.

The Chinese have medical litera-
ture of kind, but they know nothing
about even the elementary principles of
anatomy and physiology. A Chinaman
who wishes to become doctor does not
90 through any training or spend money
in buying practice; he has only to
purchase pair of spectacles and gather
some herbs, few spiders and some
snakes, which he places in bottles in
the window of his shop. The bottles
are his advertisements they tell all who
are in need of healing to come to him.
His favorite prescription is horrible
pill, compounded of parts of snakes,
wasps, centipedes, toads and scorpions,
ground small and mixed with honey.
Another pill, supposed to be of extra
ordinary efficacy in cases of extreme
weakness, is made of the bones of til
gers. The belief in its merit is based
on this strange piece of reasoning;
1.-The tiger is very strong; the bone is
The strongest part of the strong animal
therefore pill of this must be pre-
eminently strengthening" These facts
speak eloquently as to the state of
medical science in China. The lament
able consequence is an excessive NOR
tality. 1t is calculated that $4,000 die
daily, and this number is, of course,
largely increased during an epidemic,
which is no uncommon visitor.-Cham-
ber's Journal.
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New York Publishers.

No other large business in New York
is so scattered as the publishing trade.
The dry-goods trade Except the retail
part) has district to itself. Chambers
street is the center of the hardware
trade. The jewellers remain in Maiden
lane and John street, where they have
been as long as l remember. The
silver-ware houses and also the sewing
machine companies are at Union square.
The metal trade, paper trade, leather
trade and drug trade are almost con-
fined to the section east of Nassau
street, from Wall street to Beekman.
All the bankers and brokers are in or
near Wall street, of course. Printing
house square was pre-empted by the
newspapers long ago, and will probably
remain in their possession. Almost
every line of business, in fact, except
the publishing trade has its special
locality. 1t looks, somehow, as if the
leading publishing houses did not wish
to be too near each other. The Har-
pers remain down in old-fashioned
Franklin square. where nobody goes
nowadays except for some special rea-
son. Their business began in that
quarter, and they could not be induced
to leave it, The Appletons drifted a
good deal till they got into Bond street,
good mile away from the Harpers,
but they now seem to be anchored and
likely to stay. From Bond street to
where the Scribners are, at Broadway
and Astor place, is a pretty smart walk,
and from that point to the establish
ment of the Putnams, in Twenty-third
street, is still a smarter one. Some
years since it looked as if the publish
ing trade would crystalline, so to speak,
at Astor place, but it didn't. A num-
Der of the smaller houses located there
and are still on the ground, but the
large ones held back, and the trade in
general, except one special branch, is
as much scattered to-day as it was
twenty or thirty years ago. The ex-
ception is the Catholic trade, which is
all in Barclay street. This is very
large trade by itself, and it keeps to-
gether in remarkable way, considering
the rivalry in it and the tendency of
the book trade in general to segrega-
ton. Barclay street, by the way, is
facetiously in the Catholic trade as
consecrated ground" l dare say a
good many books have been buried in
it; certainly some publishers have
Cor. Hartford Times.
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ness is at the best unstable. The work
is done quickly in the midst of great
excitement and at "bigh PRESSURE"
as we say. AS money comes quickly
and easily to the broker it is not so
highly priced as If it were earned by
the toll which produces visible result,
and it usually goes as easily as it comes.
Brokers of course defend their own
occupation. They will tell you that
their services as agents in securing
stocks and bonds are needed; but they
will not deny that stock-brokerage
would cease to be profitable business,
except to a very few firms, if people
were to stop specializing in securities.
or course there are many men in this
business who have risen to wealth and
to eminence as fnanciers who would
scorn to do mean or dishonorable act
All honor to such men, because they
must often have been sorely tempted
to do wrong. / would not be unjust to
this large class Of men, so many of
whom have personal traits which we
are bound to admire. They are open
handed with their means. Their word
to one another is as good as a bond. In
fact large proportion of the business
transacted upon the exchange is done
without written contract, and depends
solely upon the good faith of the MEM
bers concerned. Their promptness to
respond to public appeals for aid or
sympathy is proverbial. Yet all this
should have no influence upon a boy
who is deciding whether or no he shall
be broker.-St. Nicholas for June.
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Misttllanp.
She'll Pass this Way.

o cloth OF gold for the Kings own palace,
Spread royalty fair today
Flow. purple wine In the violet's chalcel
The spring will pass this wayl
Fling out your banners of green and gold,
with jewels floating from every fold,
o wonderful blooms of May
wild brooks of the hills, dash down in splendor
with a quavering monotone,
Softening your song to remembrance ten der
OF days that have come and gone
Sing, birds ahoat on the upper sea,
Till thy rare, out-gushing melody
The sky's deep silence browns.
Hope, that shelters in haunts of beauty,
Awaken and smile to-day
o Love, that brightens our every duty,
The spring will pass this way
with clustered garlands and lilied wreaths,
And gemmy censor that fragrance breathes,
And smile like the light of Mayl
-Abdie E. SRow, in homestead
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Seletteo Storm.
MOnOsylIabic Poem.

Think not that strength lies in the big round word,
Or that the brief and plain must needs be weak;
To whom can this be true who once has heard
The cry for help the tongue that all men speak
When want, or woe or fear Is in the throat,
SO that each word gasped out is like shrek
Pressed from the heart, or a strange, wild note
Sung by some fay or hend2 There is a strength
Which dies If stretched too far OF spun too fine
Which has more height than BREADTH more depth
than length.
Let but this force of thought and speech he mine,
And he that will may take the sleek, fat phrase
Which CLOVIS and burns not, though 1t CLEAN and
shne
Light but not heat-a flash without blaze.
Nor is IL mere strength that the short word boasts
1t serves for more than fight or storm can tell
The roar of the waves that clash the rock bound
coasts
The crash of the tall trees when the wild winds
swell;
The roar of guns the groans of men that die
On bloodsta field. It has a voice as well
For them that farof on their sick beds lie
For them that weep, for them that mourn the dead
For them that laugh, and dance, and clap the hand
To joys quick step, well grief's slow tread.
The sweet plain words we learn at first keep time,
And though the theme be sad, or gay, or grand,
with each with all, these may be made to chime
In thought, or speech or song, or prose, or rhyme
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